Trap for animals.



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TRAP FOB. ANIMALS. APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 8.1908.

Patented June 8, 1909.

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TRAP FOB. ANIMALS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 8, 1908.

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'raar Fon ANIMALS. No. 924,237. y Patente@ .time s, rece.

Serial No. 447,502.

` Specification of Letters Patent. Application led August 8, 1908.

To all 'whom 'it may concern:

Be 1t known that I, OTTO'KAMPFE, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings; city and State of New York, have 4invented an Improvement `1n Traps for Animals, of which the following is a specification.v I

My invention relates to a trap of peculiar iorm and construction for catching small animals such as Rodentia Myomorpha, and especially rats and mice of all kinds.

In connection with the form of traps heretoi'ore employed for catching small animals such as rats and mice, many people object to the proximity of the animal when dead in the tra also to being obliged to handle the-anima to remove the same from the trap, and if would be necessary kin drowning an animal therein, either the trap 1s injured by being wet or when dry becomes rusty and unsightly, and thereafter soils the hands in further use. There are also :other and perhaps numerous objections to the well known forms of traps.

In 'carrying out my invention, I preferably employ a glass jar as the main portion ofthe trap and in connection with an apertured closing end orl removable cover therefor,l I employ two arms, an arched member and bait carrying bar pivoted to the arms. pivoted spring actuated apertured closing disk is connected to the closing end or removablecover and this latteris held o en proecting into the jar by being. caug t on a arched member. I may em )loy or unsight y in use.

gitudinal sections and partial elevations through the trap at right angles to one another. AFig. Sis an elevation of the trap at the cover end and Fig. the arms and disk and an elevation of the arched bar and bait bar. Figs.v 5 and 6 are longitudinal sections at right angles to one another through atrap representing a form of my invention. Fig 7 1s an elevation at the' cover end of the form shown in Figs. 5 and 6, and Fig. 8 is a section through the arms and disk, with the arch bar andv pivot bar in elevation.

Similar letters of lar parts.

a represents the body of the trap which constitutes the main portion.- This is referably a glass jar or vessel with a' neer a screw threaded on the periphery or exterior. As shown in Figs. 5 and 6, I may-convex the bottom a2 of the vessel and silver the sameto simulate a mirror, but I prefer on account of the quality of the glass usually employed for thesevessels to provide a recessed bottom as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and therein to cement a circular mirror h.

' b represents the removable screw cover-advantageously of metal and similar to the metal cover of a fruit jar. vided with a central aperture of any deslred size and oi ample vsizeaccording to the size oi' the jar for the animal it is desired to catch to pass through.

Q represents an inner member of sheet metal soldered or otherwise secured to the inner surface of the screwcover and similarly apertured.

I vrefer to employ a brace bar b-see particu arly Figs. 3 and 7,--which is bent and about centrally secured to the edge of the screw cover, said brace bar in use performing the. function of preventing the trap turning orrolling; l d d are armshaving end bearings; 1 to 4 inclusive, these arms are secured to the metal member-c and their opposite ends are pcrlorated as bearings for the trunnion ends of the arch bar e.

i In Figs. 5--8 inclusive, c as asubstitutefor L'the parts c in the other figures, is a block or body of ap )reciable thickness fitting within the remova le screw cover reference designate simiedge oi' the a convex or vflat bottomto lthe jar and s1 ver.- the same so as to simulatea mirror, or arrange the bottomto receive amirror,in which and about to enter the trap7 sees itself in the reiiecting surface and believing that another animal is also after4 the bait, which act immediately springs the trap and releases the closing disk, which at to its seat, closing the a erture in the end or cover and imprisoning t 1e animal in the trap. An aperture made in this closing disk is lled with finewire gauze ermt-. ting the entrance oi air tothe anima in the jar and the entrance of, water either under a faucet or when the entire trap is immersed in a pail of water to' drown the animal, the re.-

bedro ped out of the trap. The glass vessel is easi y cleansednnd the metal parts preferb and clamped by ably bein galvanized, do not become rusty 'I In the drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are lon- 'i Liis a section through This cover is proyin Figs.

5'-8 inclusive is a modification or form of my invention over that shown in the other figures of the drawing, I do not limit myself to the recise form of any of these parts.

T e arch bars e are each provided with a shoulder e and with a bait barf having a hook end f. The shoulder e is advantageously a prolongation of the bait barf on the opposite side of the arch bar and the yhook end f may be a prolongation of the baitl bar, as shown 1n Figs. 5- f8 inc lusivefor a separate piece as shown in Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive, but do not limit myself in this respect. f

g represents an apertured disk connected y a spring hinge g to the inner surface of the metal member 0,.-Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive, or the block member c Figs. 5 to 8 inclusive, and in the 'aperture of this disk g is secured a piece of wire gauze 2. I do not however limit my invention .in this respect as a disk not apertured may be employed.

In the form of my invention shown in Figs.' 1 and 2, the armsd d and spring actuated disk g may be secured directly to the cover if the thickness of the metal emplo ed therefor be made sufficient, but I do not imit my invention in regardto any of these minor particulars.

The full lines in Figs. 1 and 5 show the set i up Vosition of the trap, in which the disk gis e.

pus ed into the vess and its outer free edge passed above and resting u on the shouder or ledge e', and by virtue of t e spring applied to this apertured disk g, the arch bar, bait bar and hook end and bait are held in position,-see fullv lines Figs. 1 and 5.

`When the animal enters -the trap. and grasps the bait or nibbles at the same, this shifts the bait bar f so that the disk g becomes free from its support on the shoulder e and being spring actuated, it immediately goes to its seat against the inner surface of the members c or c closing the tr p and imprisoning -the animal. It now remains to kill the animal caught; many people claim that the most humane and certainl the most sightly way is to drown the anima and this is accomplished by flooding the trap under the faucet or by immersing theentlre trap with the animal caught therein, into a pall of water, in which casethewater rushes through the wire gauze 2 in the apertured disk g', filling .the same, and as the trap is submerged or filled with water under the faucet and there 1s no esca e for the animal, it must drown.

After its eath is assured, the cover b is un- 5 'screwed and the arms with the arch bar andremovable .aperture vessel, an arch bar then be readily cleansed with the metal parts hereinbefore described and the trap be reset to catch another rodent and repeat the operations.

The device is simple in construction, readily cleansed and ke t clean; it is more permanent and lasting t 1an a wooden trap, and more humane in its functions. If the base of the' jar or vessel is formed with a mirror,l as I prefer, the trap is more effective in its operation.

c'lalm as my invention:

1. An animal tra comprising a body,` a removable apertureg cover, a spring actuated disk hin ed to swing into the said trap body, arms a s o projecting intol the body or vessel both removable with the cover, and pivoted devices car 'ng the bait sulpported yl said arms and a apted to4 be he d in an operative position by the spring action of said disk when the trap is set. Y y

2. An animal tra comprising a body, a

removable aperture cover, a spring actuated disk-hin ed to swing into the said trap body arms a so projecting into the `body or vessel, an arch bar bait bar and a shoul er connected therewith, the bait bar carrying the bait on its free end and the shoulder serving to receive the free end of'said disk.

3. An animal tra comprising a body, a

cover, a ,sprin actuateddisk having an aperture filled with finc wire gauze hinged to swing in to the said trap bod arms also projecting into the body or vessel and pivoted devices supported thereby and carrying` the bait at one end and adaptrd tov be held 1nan operative position at the other end by the spring action of the said disk when the trap 1s set. 4. An animal tra comprising a body, a removable apertureg cover, a sprin actue ated disk having an aperture filled with fine wire gauze hinged .to swing into the said trap body, arms also projecting into the body or ivoted to said arms, a bait bar and a shoul er connected therewith, the bait bar carrying the bait on its free end and the shoulder on its opposite end serving to receive the free end of said disk.

5. An animal trap comprising a cylindrical body of transparent material such as glass closed at one end and having a screw threaded neck at the other end, a removable screw threaded cover apertured, a disk closing the aperture in the cover and having a spring actuated hinge and opening inwardly into the body of the transparent vessel, arms rojectmg into said vessel and devices pivota y connected to said arms and adapted vto support the bait at one end and to be held at the opivoted to said arms, a

posite end in a set position by thefree edge. of said disk under the tension of the spring.

and shoulder connectedto the arch bar, the bait bar at its free end adapted to carryv the` bait and the shoulder to receive the free edge of the disk and the parts to be held' as set by the spring action of the hinge ofthe disk:

7,. An animal-trap comprising a cylindrical body of. transparent material suchas glass,

having a concave-convex end silvered to sim.'n

ulate a mirror, and having a screw'threaded h -aving a concave-convex simulate a mirror and having a screw thread- -neck at the other end,` a .removable screw. threaded aperture in the cover 'and having a spring accover apertured, a disk closing the tuated hinge and opening inwardly into the bodyof the transparent vessel, arms projocting i'to said vessel and devices pivot-y ally connected'te said arms and ada ted to support the Vbait at one end amd to eheld in a set position at the other end by the free edge of said diskundcr the tension of the spring hinge. f

8. An animal trap comprising a cylindrical.

body of transparent material such -as glass, end silverecl to removable aperture ed neck at tl'iether end, a iemovable screwl i threadedfcover apertured, adisk closing the aperture in the cover and-having a spring actuated hinge and opening inwardly into the body of the transparent vessel, arms projecting into said vessel, an arch bar the free ends of the arms, a bait bar and shoulder connected to the' arch bar, the bait bar at its free end adapted to carry the bait and the shoulder to receive the disk and the parts to beheld as set by the spring action of the hinge of the diskJ 9. An animal tra comprisinga body, a

cover, a spring actuated .disk higed to the inner surface of the cover, arms connected to the cover and projecting into the body or vessel, "and pivoted devices sup orted by the arms and carrying the bait and adapted to be held ative positionby the'spring action of said disk when the trap is set. 10. An animal tra comprising a body, a removable aperture cover, a art' coming between the cover and the end o the body to' which the cover-is secured and apertured to corres ond with the cover, a spring hinge acin an operivoted to tuate disk opening into'the body, arms proj jecting intoA the body or vessel and devices pivoted to thc arms and carrying the bait landnadapted to be held tion-by the spring action'ot the disk, when the trap is set.

in an operative posi signe@ by me this 4th dayof Aucust, 1908. Jo

. o'r'ro Witnesses: l

ARTHUR. H. SERRELL,

v E. ZACHRIAS'EN. 

